Background

Mrs. Dolores Wharton serves as the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of The Fund for Corporate Initiatives, Inc. Mrs. Wharton served as Vice Chairman of OTR, Foreign Policy Association. She serves as Trustee Emeritus of Center For Strategic and International Studies and Asia Society. She served as a Director of Fort Orange Financial Corp., and Capital Bank & Trust Company, Albany, New York. She served as Director of the Center for Strategic and International Studies ... (CSIS). She served as First Woman and first black to the board of the Phillips Petroleum Company until 1993. Mrs. Wharton served as a Director of Kellogg Company and Gannett Co., Inc. She served as a Director of National Public Radio (NPR), COMSAT Corporation, Michigan Bell Telephone Company, the New York Telephone Company, the Michigan National Bank, and Key Bank, Albany. She serves as Trustee of Asia Foundation, Committee for Economic Development, City Center (New York), Glimmerglass Opera (Cooperstown, New York), and a Member of the Editorial Advisers of The Corporate Board. Mrs. Wharton served as President Ford to the National Council on the Arts of the National Endowment for the Arts from 1974 to 1980. She served as Trustee of the Museum of Modern Art from 1977 to 1987 and a Director of Albany Institute of History and Art from 1980 to 1987. She served as Trustee of the Corporation of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1987 to1994, Asia Society from 1982 to 1987, the China Medical Board from 1977 to 1981, the Albany Law School, Ethics Resource Center, The Aspen Institute, the Fashion Institute of Technology (SUNY), Women's Economic Round Table, Duke Ellington Memorial Fund, Inc., and the Board of Visitors, Tulane University. Mrs. Wharton was appointed by New York governor Cuomo to his Council on Fiscal and Economic Priorities. She was also appointed by Governor Milliken to the Michigan Council for the Arts from 1971 to 1975 and the Governor's Special Commission for Architecture from 1971 to 1972. In 1966 and 1968, she conducted a survey of the artists of Malaysia which was published in 1972 as a book, Contemporary Artists of Malaysia: A Biographic Survey, by the Asia Society of New York. Mrs. Wharton holds a B.A. degree in Fine Arts from Chicago State University and nine honorary doctors of Humane Letters from Central Michigan University, College of St. Rose, Wilberforce University, State University of New York, Le Moyne College, Marymount College, Michigan State University, Hartwick College, and Chicago State University. She was active in the arts.

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